The Irish standard., 1887-04-30
RT. REV. BISHOP CARTLAND.
The Laborious Work Accomplished by
the First Bishop Of savan-
nah, Ga.
THE DEATH OF BISHOP GARTLAND
nah, Ca.

Which Occurred at Savannah, 1854, Was
the Drowning Merit Of His
Noble Career.
Francis Xavier Gartland was born in
Dublin, Ireland, i'll the year 1905. He
came to America while yet child, aud
pursued his classical studies at Mt. st.
Mary's College, Emmittsburg. En-
bracing the life of the sanctuary, he
continued his studies with that view.
and made complete course of the
ologV. He was ordained at Philadel-
phia, by Bishop Conwell, about the year
1881 or '32. When the Rev. John Hughes,
afterward Archbishop of New York,
took possession of the new church Of ST.
John at Philadelphia in 1882, Father
G. rtland became his assistant, and was
ever JEALOUS in supporting DR.. Hughes
IN his efforts for the good of the Church.
AN instance of his zeal in this regard is
related as having occurred in 1885, when
DR.. Hughes, embarrassed by the heavy
debt contracted in building St. Johns,
and finding his efforts to raise means at
home not wholly successful, announced
to the congregation that he was about
to go OF a begging tour OF five or six
months through Mexico, in order to
raise funds to pay otf the church debt.
at the conclusion of this announce.
ment, Father Garland. who was sitting
in the sanctuary, and was then the cele-
brapt Of the late Mass, arose on the inl-
pulse Of the moment, and without
premeditation, made All eloquent and d
forcihle appeal to the congregation, ap-
pealing to them generously to raise
from their own resources the required
funds, and thus save their pastor from
the labors. fstigues, and dangers of
such journey. His appeal was COM
plete success; the necessary funds were
raised by the pewholders to pay the
most pressing liabilities of the church,
and the pastor OF ST. Johns Was re-
lieved Of bis embarrassments and his
journey. DR.. Hughes ever entertained
for him q high regard and warm friend
ship, and after the removal TO New
York Of the former, his letters to
friends in Philadelphia were always
sure to contain some message OF friend
ship for Father Garland.
On the appointment OF Dr.. Hughes to
the co-adjutorship of New Z York, Father
Garland succeeded him as pastor OF st.
Johns, where he otficiated, together
with the late DR.. Francis Patrick Ken
drick, then Bishop Of Philadelphia, un-
til his appointment to the bishopric of
in 1850. In 1915 he was ap-
pointed by Bishop Kendrick his Vicar
General, an office which he held during
the remainder of his residence iii Phlla-
delphia. His long missionary career in
Philadelphia for nearly twenty years,
gained for him, by his zeal and untir
ing labors, the commendation OF all.
The Seventh Council 1T Baltimore,
in May, 1910, proposed to the Holy See
the erection Of several new Episcopal
Sees, aud amongst them was the See of
for the State of Georgia, en-
bracing also that portion of Florida
Which stretched east OF the Apalachi-
cola river, for which DR.. Garland was
as Bishop. The Roman
revolution retarded the examination of
the acts of the Council The Holy
Father, Plus TX, re-eptered Rome
April IL, 1850; the Sacred Congregation
resumed it's functions soon after, and,
by the letter OF August 8, the Propa-
ganda transmitted to Baltimore the
Pontiical briefs, one OF which con-
DR.. Garland the Bishop OF
Savannah.
He Was consecrated On Sunday, Sep
tember 10, 1850, at st. Johns Church,
Philadelphia, by Archbishop Eccleston,
Of Baltimore, assisted by Bishops Ken
drick, OF Philadelphia, and O'Connor,
of Pittsburgh, in the presence of large
Of clergy, students OF the Sem
mary OF ST. Charles Borromeo, and all
immense and devout concourse of the
laity.
During his short episcopate OF less
than four years, Bishop Gartland did
all that his extremely limited resources
rendered possible to accomplish for the
of the new diocese and the
spread OF religion therein. During this
time he erected three new churches.
and ho enlarged, with an addition of
twenty-five by sixty feet, the church,
now cathedral, of st. John the Baptist,
and re-dedicated it on Sunday, June 26,
1853. In the first year of his episcopate,
heUsited Europe, 70 gain some assistance
for his sparse and needy flock, then
of about five thousand five
hundred Catholics scattered over the
State sof Georgia and East Florida.
While at Carlow College, in Ireland, in
November, 1851, he engaged the SER
vices Of Rev. Michael Cullihan, then a